Adventure
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Road Trip!
内容列表 道路行走!
4 In Class.
4级。
5 Getting Ready to Leave.
5 准备离开。
8 On the Road.
第8条 上行道场.
9 One Landform to Go!
9"一地道去"!
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 Road Trip!
(原始内容存档于2017-10-21). 16 Road Trip!
We’re going on a road trip this summer!
今年夏天,
My parents and I are driving from Boston to Seattle.
我父母和我正从波士顿开车去西雅图
My class has been learning about landforms in school.
我的班级一直在学习学校的地貌
We’re going to see some amazing landforms on the trip!
我们会在旅途中看到惊人的地貌!
In Class My teacher, Mr.
我的老师,先生
Lopez, said that Earth’s crust is made up of huge pieces of rock called plates.
洛佩兹说地壳由巨大的岩石组成,称为板块.
Some of the plates are larger than continents!
有些板块比大陆大!
The plates sit above melted rock and slowly slide around because of heat deep inside Earth.
板块坐落在被熔化的岩石上方,并由于地内热深而缓慢地滑行.
The moving plates can create landforms.
移动板能产生地形.
Mr.
先生,请问...
Lopez also said that Earth’s surface is always changing.
洛佩兹还说地表总是在变化.
He said that some changes are slow, while others are fast.
他说,有些变化是缓慢的,而另一些变化是迅速的。
Old landforms can change over time, and new ones can be created.
旧地形可以随时间而变化,而新地形可以被创造出.
Some landforms result from changes underground.
一些地貌由地下变化而来.
Hot, melted rock under Earth’s surface can build up and form a volcano.
地表下热而融化的岩石可以积聚并形成火山.
A volcano is a type of mountain.
火山是山的一种类型.
Landforms can be created when the plates in Earth’s crust move.
当地壳的板块移动时,可以产生地形.
Other changes happen on the surface.
其他变化发生在地表.
Weathering breaks down rock and shapes it.
天气分崩离析并塑造出岩石.
Erosion carries away the pieces that have broken off.
侵蚀带走了已经断裂的碎片.
Wind, water, and ice are the main tools of weathering and erosion.
风能,水能,和冰能成为风能和侵蚀的主要工具.
Mr.
先生,请问...
Lopez handed out a list of different landforms.
洛佩兹发布了不同地貌的列表.
I’m going to take the list on my trip and try to see them all!
我要把名单拿来,
Getting Ready to Leave Mom and I start at Castle Island, in Boston Harbor.
准备离开妈妈 我从波士顿港的城堡岛开始
It’s not really an island since it doesn’t have water all around it.
因为周围没有水,
It’s connected to the mainland on one side, so it’s a peninsula.
它与大陆相连,
You can see a bunch of islands from there, though.
你可以从那里看到一堆岛屿
My mom and I saw these islands in Boston Harbor.
我和我妈在波士顿港见过这些岛屿
On the Road Once we start driving west, the hills and valleys grow larger, and we seem to be climbing higher.
在路上 一旦我们开始向西行驶,山地和山谷会变大,我们似乎攀升得更高.
We pass some old mountains that erosion has worn down to big hills.
我们穿过一些老山 侵蚀已经磨损到大丘陵
In New York State, the land is low and hilly in some places and higher in other places.
在纽约州,地势低洼,有些地方地势丘陵,而其他地方地势较高.
Dad says the higher places are part of a huge, high area of land called a plateau (pla-TOH).
爸爸说,高地是一块被称作高地(pla-TOH)的巨大高地的一部分。
After stopping for the night, we keep driving west until we get to Lake Erie.
停下来过夜后,我们一直向西行驶,直到到达伊利湖.
It’s one of the Great Lakes.
这是大湖之一。
A glacier carved the Great Lakes about fourteen thousand years ago.
大约一万四千年前,大湖被冰川所雕刻.
The Berkshires look more like big hills than what I think of as mountains.
比起我想象的山,伯克郡人看起来更像大山.
Lake Erie is much too wide to see across to the other side.
伊利湖太宽了 无法看到另一边
We stay overnight in Chicago and then get back on the road.
我们在芝加哥过夜 然后回到路上
Now we’re driving past Madison, Wisconsin, which is on an isthmus (IS-muhs).
我们开车经过威斯康星州的麦迪逊,
It’s a narrow strip of land between two bodies of water.
这是两具水体之间的狭长地带。
We stop to see the Wisconsin Dells.
我们停下来看看威斯康辛戴尔一家
The Dells is a gorge —a steep, narrow valley—that was carved by the Wisconsin River.
戴尔河是威斯康辛河所雕刻出的一个峡谷——陡峭而狭窄的山谷.
Along its sides are canyons, which are similar to gorges but not as steep or narrow.
沿边有峡谷,峡谷与峡谷相类似,但不像陡峭或狭窄.
We’re almost to the Mississippi River, one of the longest rivers in the world.
我们接近密西西比河,
This part of the Mississippi was carved by glaciers.
密西西比河的这一部分被冰川所雕刻.
We cross the Mississippi River on the way to the Great Plains.
我们在去大平原的路上穿过了密西西比河.
A plain is a large, flat area without many trees.
平原是面积大而平坦的地区,没有多棵树.
The Great Plains formed when two plates smashed into each other and joined together.
大平原是两块板块相撞并合而成的.
Some parts of the Great Plains are flat, and others have hills.
大平原部分地区地势平坦,有的有丘陵地.
The grasslands of the Great Plains were once home to huge herds of bison and horses.
大平原的草地曾经有巨大的野牛和马群.
Wisconsin’s state capitol building is on Madison’s isthmus.
威斯康辛州政府大楼位于麦迪逊地峡上。
We drive through a corner of Wyoming and pass some mountains on our left.
我们开车穿过怀俄明州的一角 穿过了左边的一些山
Some of the mountains have snow, but Mom says even bigger mountains are still to come.
有的山有雪,但妈妈说更大的山还有来.
After we cross into Montana and drive for a while, Dad says, “Get ready to see something big!”
我们穿过蒙大拿州开车一段时间后,
Soon afterward, I see a row of high, snowy peaks—the Rocky Mountains.
不久之后,我看到一排高耸而多雪的山峰——落基山脉。
The Rockies are one of the main mountain ranges in the West.
落基山脉是西部主要山脉之一.
They formed when two small plates beneath the Pacific Ocean slid under the North American Plate.
它们形成于太平洋下的两个小板块在北美板块下滑行时.
After driving across Montana and Idaho, we finally enter Washington.
开车过蒙大拿州和爱达荷州后,终于进入了华盛顿.
We pass Mount Rainier (ray-NEER), a huge volcano.
我们穿过了雷尼尔山,一座巨大的火山。
The top of Mount Rainier is covered with glaciers.
雷尼尔山顶被冰川覆盖.
Glaciers are large fields of ice and packed snow that stay frozen all year long.
冰川是大片的冰地 和堆积而成的雪地 一直被冰冻一整年
Snow covers the peaks of a Rocky Mountain range in Montana.
斯诺覆盖了蒙大拿州洛基山山脉的山峰.
One Landform to Go!
一块地去!
For the last landform on my list, we travel one hour north to see a river delta.
我名单上的最后一块地表 我们北上一个小时 去看三角洲河
This landform was created when dirt and rocks built up where the river flows into a bay.
这种地貌是在泥土和岩石堆积后形成的,河水流入海湾的地方.
I’ve seen some amazing landforms on this trip, and I’ve learned so much about how Earth’s surface changes.
这趟旅程我看到了一些惊人的地貌, 我学到了很多地球表面的变化。
I can’t wait to tell Mr.
我迫不及待想告诉Mr.
Lopez about my summer vacation!
洛佩兹关于我的暑假!
Glossary continents the main divisions of land (n.)
词汇大陆主要土地划分(n.)
on Earth (p.
(中文(简体) ).
5) delta (n.)
5) 三角洲 (n.
a triangular area of land formed by sediment at a river’s mouth (p.
由河口沉积物形成的三角地(p.
15) erosion (n.)
15) 侵蚀 (n.
the natural removal of rock or soil by water, wind, or ice (p.
通过水、风或冰来自然去除岩石或土壤(p.
7) gorge (n.)
7) 峡谷 (n.
a long, deep valley (p.
长而深的山谷 (p.
11) isthmus (n.)
11)地峡 (n.
a narrow strip of land connecting two larger landmasses (p.
连接两个较大地块的狭长地带(p.
11) landforms natural formations on (n.)
11) 在(n.)上形成地表。
Earth’s surface (p.
地表 (p.
4) peninsula a long piece of land almost (n.)
4) 半岛一长块地几乎(n.
surrounded by water (p.
被水所包围 (p.
8) plateau (n.)
8)高原 (n.
a large raised area of flat land (p.
面积很大的平地(第2页)。
9) weathering the wearing away of (n.)
9) 平息(n.
Earth’s surface by natural forces (p.
由自然力作用的地表 (p.
7) Over time, soil built up and caused the river to split into many smaller branches in the area between the dotted lines.
7) 随着时间的推移,土壤积聚并导致河道被分出多条被点地线所分出的小分支.